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STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Thousands of NHM employees including employees from Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programmed (RNTCP), J&K State AIDS Control Society and other schemes of National Health Mission continued their strike here on Monday.
Spokesperson of the Association, Faizan A Tramboo informed the media that State Government is not paying any heed to their genuine demands and forcing them to take aggressive measures to project their demands, which will not be beneficial for anyone, especially the needy and poor patients.
He said that in past nine months they have been betrayed multiple times through hollow statements and empty promises by the Health Minister and higher authorities of Health Department and now they need concrete documentation and formal policy safeguarding interests of all categories of employees including doctors, paramedics and management.
The protesting employees asserted that they have been approaching the State Government and the concerned departments for the last many years seeking a policy for their regularisation but no one paid heed to their demands.
“Because of our hard work and dedication, our State is being awarded No 1 State for Primary Health Services for the last three consecutive years throughout the country, now in return if employees are asking for their dividends why government is showing cold shoulder and is acting as a mute spectator,” he said, adding that the NHM employees have decided not to call off the stiike till the government come out with a written proposal for regularization of the services of the employees of all the three schemes.
The NHM Association President Rohit Seth, President RNTCP Dr S S Sambyal and President JKSACS Nisar Ahmed Dar urged upon the government to consider the genuine demands of NHM employees on priority basis, instead of giving them inhuman treatment otherwise the agitation will turn ugly in the coming days for which the State Govt shall be held responsible.
